Question

Crippling disease is caused due to poisoning of _____________.
A. Arsenic
B. Lead
C. Mercury
D. Selenium

Answer 1

Crippling is said to be an illness or disease which severely damages the health or the body. Disability or impairments of a person in any way comes under the crippling disease.

Complete answer: Alzheimer’s disease is considered to be one of the most crippling and distressing diseases of the elderly body. This has a crippling effect on the worse off at crucial stages of recovery from the Famine. Fines were also imposed and crippling fines were threatened. Most of the surrounding marshland has fallen to the crippling infection. Alzheimer’s disease is a type of dementia that affects memory, thinking, and behavior. Symptoms grow severe enough to interfere with daily tasks. This disease accounts for 60-80% of dementia cases. This disease is not a part of aging. The greatest known factor is increasing age, and the majority of people with this disease are 65 and older. But, this disease is also found in people whose age is less than 65 years old in America. There is no treatment that cures Alzheimer's disease or alters the disease process in the brain. In the advanced stages of the disease, complications from severe loss of brain function-such as dehydration, malnutrition, or infection results in death. Basically, it is a disease that is progressive in nature that destroys memory and other important mental functions.
Hence, the correct answer is option (A), i.e., Arsenic.

Note: Some of the Crippling diseases are as follows:
-Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)-Lou Gehrig’s disease.
-Parkinson’s disease
-Multiple Sclerosis
-Scleroderma
-Cystic fibrosis
-Cerebral palsy
-Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)